We usually link to company websites when possible, but causaLens has what appears to be an entirely non-functional cookie consent option banner, so I’ll avoid it. Hopefully their “causal AI” tech works better, since they just launched it officially. The promise is to build AI models that identify cause-and-effect relationships and use them to make better business decisions.
Customer data matching expert Lotame has launched Spherical, a “next-generation data platform” that will make it easier for companies to connect their first-party data to other sources for enrichment, modeling, and advertising activation. What’s new here is connectors for CDPs and company data warehouses.
The cause-and-effect link between greenhouse gases and global warming is well established, although the contribution of digital advertising seems more questionable. But enough ad-folk worry about it that IAB Tech Lab has launched a Green Supply Path Initiative to help programmatic advertisers measure their impact and, at least as important, show that They Care.
Just over half of consumers (54%) like to receive personalized messages because they show the consumers are known to the brand, plus they can be time savers. The rest (46%) find it at best unimportant, at worst creepy. Relevance far outstrips personalization when it comes to driving email opens (54% vs. 19%). Takeaway: treat each customer the way they prefer.